On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 02:08:05PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 01:58:17PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > Yes, just a fix of my previous QA upload. I'm aware of your > > current activities. Eventually, I'll post patches or comments on BTS. I have > > a working NIS environment here, just if you need a testbed or something. > > If you could test and verify the patch for #278229, that would be very good. > > > BTW, i did try to subscribe the autofs devel list, without results. > > I think communicating a few patches and comments upstream is mandatory > > for autofs... > > Yes, indeed. I don't even know the upstream distribution site (nor how to > subscribe to the list); do you know where it is? :-) >
http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs distribution is done on the kernel.org ftp site, AFAIK. Collecting patches from the devel list and possibly other distros like Fedora or Suse is also a good thing. There is an interesting non-deamon mode patch, which could be useful for debugging purpose, but it seems creating problems with current debian package. > > Also, if i had time, I would start experiments with autofs-ng which > > is potentially a complete rewrote and improvement of current > > kernel and user space tools. > > I think I'll leave that for somebody else; my primary intention now is to > clean up the bug list a bit and make sure autofs is in a releasable state for > sarge (which I guess it is, after you fixed all the RC bugs :-) ). > that's good, my todos list is damn loooong... -- Francesco P. Lovergine
